I was using food so I didn’t have to be different from other people. I could fit in. I could be “normal.” My terror and dread of being different, of not being accepted or approved of, was being taken care […]
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I Surrender All
All to Jesus I surrender; All to Him I freely give; I will ever love and trust Him, In His presence daily live. Surrender. I’ve known the feeling, felt the spirit, bowed to mercy, lived in love. I’ve lived in […]
Continue reading »Pardon My Asking, Lord
Lord, did you hesitate, waffle or pause before touching the crusted and unseeing eyes? Did the odor distract from your virtuous cause, did the man disappear amid lice and the flies? How did you feel when the leprous came calling […]
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…most of the world doesn’t understand scribblers. We’re loners. We’re odd. Our thoughts go off on tangents and we tell bad jokes. ~ Michael T. Huyck, Jr. Everybody hates me, nobody likes me I’m going out to eat worms. I’m […]
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~ Robertson Davies The solution was always here, before me, staring at me, waiting for me. The solution has never changed but when I changed, when I accepted some […]
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